MOSCOW, May 11. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova on Wednesday blasted the Lithuanian parliament’s resolution on Russia’s alleged terrorist activity as an extremist move.
"I’d like to remind those countries that might have forgotten or have been adopting such declarations, statements - I cannot call them documents - and making extremist moves, because they cannot be described otherwise. All those countries are NATO members. Over the past decades, we could repeatedly witness NATO’s unlawful aggression not justified by any legal reasons or any reality on Earth. On the contrary, the actions on the part of the alliance and its members provoked new conflicts," she said during a live Sputnik radio broadcast.
Had Lithuania been concerned about the fate of both Ukraine and the entire European continent, it would have "raised its voice for the Kiev regime to implement the Minsk agreements, and perhaps it would have at least once in the past eight years raised its concern over the fate of people being killed in the Donbass republics," Zakharova said. The authorities in Lithuania would have called for a ceasefire in Ukraine and condemned weapons supplies, had they been sincere in their desire to have the crisis resolved, the Russian diplomat said. "They have been doing quite the opposite instead, so this should be treated as an element of provocation, extremism and political hypocrisy," Zakharova concluded.
On Tuesday, the Lithuanian parliament unanimously adopted a resolution saying that Russia has been conducting terrorist activity in Ukraine that should be considered a genocide against the latter’s people. Lithuanian lawmakers have called on the international community to denounce this activity as a war crime and a crime against humanity. Luthuania’s politicians have also accused Russia of terrorism.